Fund launches & raises: archive
Every Fund launches & raises story in Private Credit, newest first. 123 stories
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State Street adds daily NAV pricing for Apollo's $850bn credit arm
The covered strategies were not named, and the model replaces their monthly valuations with daily marks.
Sycamore Tree closes $504 million CLO of U.S. syndicated loans
Alternatives Watch reported the close in its Oct. 27 roundup, and terms beyond size and collateral were not disclosed.
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AllianceBernstein private markets AUM jumps 33% to $105 billion
Private markets grew 33% year over year even as total assets slipped 1% to $900.4 billion on $8.4 billion of retail outflows.
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Polus closes $400m reset of Polus US CLO I
The London manager's US print follows a €400m European CLO closed at the end of September.
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Blackstone credit and insurance assets reach $480bn after $35.8bn third-quarter inflows
Insurance separately managed accounts supplied $16.5bn of the $18bn raised by infrastructure and asset-based credit strategies.
ACORE Capital launches wealth platform, taps Apollo's Manning to run it
Mick Manning joins from Apollo's bridge investment group to run the unit, which offers high-net-worth investors the firm's commercial real estate credit and select equity strategies.
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Amundi raises nearly €200m in first close of Senior Private Debt V
The fund makes senior secured loans to companies with €15m-€50m EBITDA and is classified Article 8 under SFDR.
Sagard opens $5.9bn private credit platform to US advisors via Baird
Registered advisors and accredited investors gain access under a distribution partnership covering product innovation and advisor engagement.
Njord Partners names Kirsty Acton head of capital formation and fundraising partner
Acton joins from EQT's EMEA private wealth client relations team, effective 26 October.
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Former ThinCats managing director Ravi Anand launches Ignite Funding Partners, seeks £500m
The new UK SME lender plans facilities of £1m to £25m, and several former ThinCats colleagues are set to join.
Ares files SEC Form D for Stegosaurus secondaries vehicle with $0 sold
The Oct. 14 filing has an undisclosed offering size, and all 20 Form Ds dated Oct. 13–16 report $0 sold.
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Nuveen Private Capital passes $100bn in committed capital
The Churchill-Arcmont platform says it invested $27bn across more than 400 middle-market deals in the past year and remains 93 per cent institutional.
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Carlyle agrees to acquire $7.7bn Truist consumer loan portfolio
The unsecured personal loan pool is mostly fixed-rate, fully amortising loans to prime and super-prime borrowers.
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Victory Park launches tokenized feeder for asset-backed credit fund
The Janus Henderson affiliate built the feeder with Tradable on Stellar; it expects quarterly liquidity and monthly stablecoin payouts.
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Benefit Street Partners adds Encina team and $480m seed portfolio to ABF platform
A Franklin Templeton and BSP-affiliated fund acquires the Encina-originated commitments, and BSP says the combined platform can originate more than $3bn a year.
New Holland Capital acquires majority stake in municipal credit manager Foundation Credit
New Holland, which runs more than $8.3bn in absolute return strategies, will invest in Foundation's municipal credit and infrastructure debt strategies.
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Ares files two feeders for Infrastructure Debt VI
SEC Form D notices for Ares, BH3, Blackstone Credit and Astatine vehicles list no offering amount and $0 sold.
Pemberton opens Tokyo office to serve Japanese demand for European credit
The $34bn manager names Jun Narui to lead the office and plans a second Asia office.
Bridgepoint, GFH Bank and AIP Capital build $1bn aircraft engine leasing platform
GFH Bank is the cornerstone investor and strategic partner; AIP Capital will lead engine sourcing and trading as the partners raise outside capital.
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NorthWall appoints Attila Takacs as co-portfolio manager of its CLO platform
He joins from Sound Point Capital, where he worked across nine European CLOs with €3.8bn of assets under management.
M&G launches £74m private credit LTAF seeded in part by with-profits fund
The Diversified Private Credit Feeder LTAF targets UK defined contribution schemes and sits inside M&G's £28bn private and structured credit platform.
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CVC Credit prices roughly €400m Cordatus XXXIX, its second European CLO of 2026
CVC CLO Equity IV takes the majority of the equity tranche, and CVC says its 13 European CLO transactions this year make it the market's most active issuer.
Deloitte: 48% of fund groups refresh private credit daily using observable market inputs
Only 4% carry out a full daily update that revisits unobservable inputs, cash flow assumptions and methodology; Apollo has begun extending daily pricing across its $850bn credit business.
BlueOrchard and IFC seek $2bn for emerging market private debt fund
Tokio Marine Group anchored the $300m first close of the evergreen vehicle, which is aimed at pension funds, insurers and sovereign wealth funds.
Partners Group launches evergreen multi-sector private credit income strategy
The $186bn private markets firm is offering the strategy to institutional and private wealth investors and targets high single-digit to low double-digit returns.
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Tikehau makes European private credit ELTIF available on iCapital Marketplace
The Luxembourg evergreen fund joins iCapital's existing range of ELTIF 2.0 products for wealth managers in eligible EMEA markets.
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StepStone and Dubai's ASB Capital launch Shari'ah-compliant lending fund
The ASB StepStone Private Financing Fund will lend mainly to US middle-market companies and is being built as an open-ended, perpetual vehicle.
Aviva Investors buys Adriana Infrastructure CLO, expanding its private debt platform
The FTSE 100 insurer's asset manager has held senior notes in the 2008-vintage vehicle since 2013 and now says further securitisation products, CLOs included, are coming.
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HanseMerkur Grundvermögen launches sixth real estate debt fund targeting €500m
The insurer's investment arm has already issued a €40m green loan to refinance the Holiday Inn Express Düsseldorf Airport, while its parent will hold a permanent 20 to 30 per cent portfolio stake.
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Oaktree closes debut asset-backed finance fund at $2bn
The Brookfield-owned manager raised the money across ABF I and related vehicles, with US public pensions and sovereign wealth funds among the backers.
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Metrics Credit Partners suspends redemptions after KPMG valuation dispute
The Australian manager, which runs around A$40bn, halted trading in three ASX-listed funds and marked them down by as much as 12.16 per cent.
Kartesia prices debut European BSL CLO at €459m, upsized from €400m
The AAA tranche cleared at +129bp without arranger participation, four months after Kartesia launched its loan management strategy.
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Castlelake, Canyon, Barings and Cerberus file numbered credit funds with zero sold
All five Form D registrations show zero sold and no target raise, leaving structure as the only filled-in part.
Fidelity closes second real estate debt fund at $451m, more than doubling the first
The LP list spans institutions, family offices, RIAs and wealthy individuals, and the report gives no figure for the predecessor fund.
New York Life Investment Management takes majority stake in Invictus Capital Partners
The $20bn residential credit manager brings its Verus Mortgage Capital loan-sourcing platform under the $837.6bn insurer-owned asset manager, with no price or exact stake disclosed.
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Oxford Finance raises $368m for asset-based lending within a year of launch
Five transactions from $25m to $160m average above $70m, leaving the first-year pool concentrated.
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Blackstone wraps its perpetual funds for non-US wealth
One subscription, four asset classes — and a test of whether packaging now decides the wealth channel's economics.
Infranity's €15bn was built on insurance; wealth is the unproven leg
The platform milestone is real, but the push into private wealth is a distribution build the firm has not yet tested.
The hiring tape says origination is the scarce input
Two ICG hires and a new structured credit desk at CPP Investments are both purchases of origination capability, and the next vehicle will show it.
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Fasanara's debut shows AAA demand is not the constraint
A first-time manager cleared the top of its stack at 129bp over Euribor, which makes collateral the harder question for Europe's new-manager wave.